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Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Trish & Lorraine are joined by sustainable, natural cleaning entrepreneurs Purdy Rubin & Charlotte Figg (aka Purdy & Figg) who share the best tips from their new book Clever Cleaning: The Natural Way To Clean Everything. Find out how the two midlife friends came up with the idea for their multi-million pound business, what you need to know if planning to work with family or friends, and the ‘A-ha moment’ when you know you’re onto a winner.
Plus: Have you got ‘Resting Midlife Woman Face’? & Trish’s Irish drinking song
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| 0:00.0 | Morning, my little friend. Gosh, what a busy time we have had recently. You've been, you're all, you're up and running with your classes in teaching in South West London. I've been relaunching my parenting newsletter on Substack, sorting my son out for his gap year. |
| 0:26.1 | I think he's going to go to Japan, Trish. |
| 0:27.9 | Oh, exciting. |
| 0:29.2 | I know. |
| 0:29.7 | I've planned a little Cornish swim retreat and I've been pitching a new book. |
| 0:33.4 | It's been All Go. |
| 0:35.3 | Good for you. |
| 0:36.4 | We like being busy though, don't we? I have to say, my Pilates, I'm really enjoying it. I'm doing, you're going to think I'm mad, I'm doing a class at 6.45 a.m. on a Wednesday morning. Cycle down to the gym of the dark. And it's an athletic class class as well so it's that kind of advanced high |
| 0:54.7 | energy palates. I like that. I'm also doing 8.30 on a Monday but it's really exciting. I just |
| 1:00.8 | love it. I love being around all the different kinds of people. It's really good and I'm also |
| 1:06.5 | working on my website. I'm going to do a little Pilates website, Lorraine. So excited for this. |
| 1:27.3 | You're about to take the internet by storm. Have you got all your outfits? I've got my outfits. They're not very exciting, but they look okay, I think. So I'm kind of getting all that prepped in December. I think you're going to be my guinea pig, aren't you? You said you come along, do a little class with me that we could film. |
| 1:28.2 | I am. |
| 1:30.6 | Anyway, watch this space. |
| 1:34.9 | Watch this space. Get this though, Trish. What else has happened to me this week. I'm going to apparently be more busy because I'm going to be entering a specific |
| 1:40.4 | new era of my life according to TikTok predictions. Oh, gosh. Right. |
| 1:48.8 | Are you ready? Wow. So I was in the kitchen in my pajamas with my 14 year old and 19 year old, |
| 1:55.2 | and they were playing this TikTok selfie game. So you take a picture in TikTok app. It then applies lyrics from a song that go with |
| 2:04.5 | how you look and your attitude. The picture you see. So that all sounds nice, doesn't it? And my little |
| 2:10.1 | Mabel got a little power ballad and Henry got some kind of romantic. I mean, I didn't know their songs. |
| 2:15.5 | They were the modern music. Probably Benson Boone, who I don't go. |
| 2:20.8 | Anyway, so there I am in my PJs. Henry takes my picture. And then my lyrics come up. |
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